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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Dominican RepublicCongo - KinshasaArgentina
8,17551,18136,924
8,30152,78237,336
8,42754,45337,714
8,55356,17038,079
8,67857,86038,438
8,80159,59938,800
8,92461,47439,171
9,04463,47939,556
9,16465,59039,947
9,28167,80040,343
9,39870,11440,736
9,51272,55041,401
9,62775,13841,881
9,74277,79242,360
9,85580,53442,836
9,96583,36843,310
10,07286,22943,779
10,17789,19344,245
10,28192,20944,706
10,38595,23245,162
10,48798,32045,613
10,587101,49946,058
10,686104,76746,496
10,793108,17146,736

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Argentina

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
  • 1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

No separate list is published for Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.